You know you're getting serious about world building for a story, when your dreams actually take place in the world you're working on. I spent all of yesterday thinking about a bunch of complex rules for a Speculative Fiction story, which I'm still writing right now.

It's going to be a Cyberpunk world that focuses on disparity between nations that have varying degrees of development. Much of humans in first world countries have taken up heavy modifications(Mostly things that add convenience, but specializations exist in the professional world), which gives them inhuman appearances. I mostly intend to portray the modified humans as being alien to most normal humans, indifferent and laid back to an extreme. It'll almost be like the Eldar from warhammer with their typical mindsets(Most might have a superiority complex, or believe that they are a superior species. Others are more human in how they think, but still come across as alien in their mannerisms.)

The stories I'm actually writing focus on a group of US Marines who get stationed in arabic countries, where they can't fit in with people who still hold onto their traditions. The soldiers are radically different from the people they're trying to protect, with many being entirely eldritch in appearance and manners.

I plan on taking classes on Arabic history and culture, while also doing interviews with various military folk to try and figure out how best to portray them. This should be a fun project for me to work on.


I'll work on getting character sheets up later for some of the men in the story. It will be so much fun to create such a colorful crowd of peoples, and to keep them up right beside ordinary humans. If anyone reading this blog wants to take suggestions for names and concepts, I'll be happy to answer your comments or include references to reader-made characters in the story.